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To: Machaon who wrote (60238)	12/6/2002 6:26:05 PM
From: Elsewhere	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

The Israel/Palestine problem was sad and intractable when FADG started and it still is. Witness one of FaultLine's first posts more than a year ago, #28 of the thread: #reply-16359631 I fear the Palestinian-Israel question is unresolvable and maybe too hot to handle at this time. Thread participants may state their views but please (everyone) do not exhort or let the discussions deteriorate into animus and calumny. This statement still applies though it is very difficult to maintain a balance. On the one hand the conflict can not be ignored, on the other hand emotions run high quickly. I guess that everybody who sympathizes with one side has to live with being annoyed more or less frequently by postings in favor of the opposite side. I don't know a solution for avoiding mutually hurt feelings. Only a peer review process could provide a filter but then we'd approach the sterility of academic fora. Israelis aren't the bad guys, as you wrote, but neither are all of the Palestinians terrorists. It's difficult to avoid the temptation of strong emotions, and it's no consolation that sometimes it's even too much for professionals: the Jerusalem police chief Mickey Levy suffered a heart attack after arriving at a terror scene. israelinsider.com I hope he has recovered fully.